Odorous Taints Linked to Treated Wood Pallets

In case you didn’t believe what you read on this blog about wood pallets, here’s an interesting piece from PharmTech Talk. This is the blog of Pharmaceutical Technology, a well-respected trade magazine for those in the pharmaceutical industry. The blog entry describes how anti-fungal wood preservatives on wood pallets can migrate into products shipped on them. Pharmaceutical product recalls of goods that have been tainted in this way have been in the news a lot over the past few years.

Granted, the wood pallets this piece is talking about come from offshore. But, that’s part of the problem. You never really know where a particular wood pallet or pallets might have come from. Consider that the next time you’re toying with the idea of using an old wood pallet for a DIY project around the home, like a shelf, a table or a bed. You don’t know where it came from. You don’t know where it’s been. And you don’t know what is on it.